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mismatch

[mis-mach, mis-mach] / mɪsˈmætʃ, ˈmɪsˌmætʃ /


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To explore this nutritional mismatch, researchers compared the essential amino acid composition of honeybee tissues with pollen collected from 99 UK flowering plant species representing 26 plant families.

From Science Daily Aug. 19, 2026

This may point to a mismatch where graduates aren’t building experience in the industries suited to their skills or desires.

From MarketWatch Aug. 4, 2026

This term has also revealed the profound philosophical mismatch between the court and the public.

From Slate Jul. 29, 2026

As your editorial notes, current levels lock homeowners in place, creating a mismatch problem.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

That’s because the opening phrase, at the age often, is attached to my father—an obvious mismatch.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

Since the public rolls don’t include voters’ unique identifiers, people at the lab also knew linking them to HSI’s data would produce mismatches — what the staffer called an “ungodly” number of false positives.

From Salon Aug. 15, 2026

Semiconductor stocks have historically been cyclical, experiencing boom-and-bust phases from supply-demand mismatches.

From MarketWatch Apr. 29, 2026

Asian countries are limited in how much U.S. energy they can process by infrastructure mismatches.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 25, 2026

“We were in the flow, the ball was moving and we got mismatches that we like,” Musselman said.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 17, 2026

However, no changes have been made in this e-text for these mismatches.

From Adequate Preparation for the Teacher of Biological Sciences in Secondary Schools by James Daley McDonald

What follows — the drained reserves, the mismatched oil, the strained grid and the price we all pay — is the fallout.

From MarketWatch Jul. 21, 2026

Accuracy for the mismatched items dropped to nearly zero in some cases.

From Science Daily Jun. 10, 2026

“When you see that map, it’s a little bit mismatched and our team re-created that,” Maras says.

From Los Angeles Times May 29, 2026

Bob Mac Leod had spent 29 years living with a secondary bathroom that he described as being in decent shape, despite its dated tile and mismatched floor and wall colors.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 8, 2026

He danced on his front paws on the porch, his mismatched eyes smiling up at me, his tongue hanging out happy.

From "The Honest Truth" by Dan Gemeinhart

Retro-themed decor is in, with trees jam-packed full of bold, mismatching decorations, as more people try to recreate a festive season from their childhood.

From BBC Dec. 20, 2025

Among them facsimiles of relevant ephemera are bound in mismatching formats: foldout drawings, transparencies, die-cuttings and pamphlets whose archival relevance you must flip through to ascertain.

From New York Times Jan. 16, 2024

"We find that user engagement increases when the national headquarters lead the production of content and the local accounts follow either by tweeting to a matching or mismatching audience, depending on timing in the operation."

From Science Daily Oct. 10, 2023

Flowers that bloom in early balmy weather run the risk of mismatching with their primary pollinators—such as hummingbirds or bees—which can follow non-climate-dependent cues such as day length.

From Scientific American Mar. 22, 2023

I mark the ground in squares of one rod and plant in every other crossing, mismatching to make the trees zigzag.

From The Apple by Various




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